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Nina Balke is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within materials science and engineering. The main areas of study include materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and biomedical engineering, with additional focus on electronic, optical and magnetic materials, as well as polymers and plastics.

Their publication record highlights involvement in several key topics related to advanced materials. These topics include:

  • Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials
  • Acoustic wave resonator technologies
  • Multiferroics and related materials
  • 2D materials and applications
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • MXene and MAX phase materials
  • Supercapacitor materials and fabrication

Balke has frequently published in scientific venues such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Nano, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Nature Communications. Their recent papers include:

  • "Effects of interlayer confinement and hydration on capacitive charge storage in birnessite" (2021) - Nature Materials
  • "Progress on Emerging Ferroelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting, Storage and Conversion" (2022) - Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Tracking ion intercalation into layered Ti3C2 MXene films across length scales" (2020) - Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Nanoscale Mapping of Extrinsic Interfaces in Hybrid Solid Electrolytes" (2020) - Joule
  • "Titanium Carbide MXene Shows an Electrochemical Anomaly in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes" (2021) - ACS Nano

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Wan-Yu Tsai, Sabine M. Neumayer, Petro Maksymovych, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Stephen Jesse. Their research contributions span over 130 publications distributed across the fields and subfields mentioned, reflecting a broad engagement in interdisciplinary materials research.

Best Publications

  • Electric-field control of local ferromagnetism using a magnetoelectric multiferroic

    Ying-hao Chu;Lane W. Martin;Lane W. Martin;Mikel B. Holcomb;Mikel B. Holcomb;Martin Gajek

  • Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics

    J. Seidel;L. W. Martin;L. W. Martin;Q. He;Q. Zhan

  • Nanoscale mapping of ion diffusion in a lithium-ion battery cathode

    N. Balke;S. Jesse;A. N. Morozovska;E. Eliseev

  • Electric modulation of conduction in multiferroic Ca-doped BiFeO3 films

    C. H. Yang;J. Seidel;J. Seidel;S. Y. Kim;P. B. Rossen

  • Multiferroics and magnetoelectrics: thin films and nanostructures

    L. W. Martin;S. P. Crane;Ying-hao Chu;M. B. Holcomb

  • Homogenization of AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys with improved corrosion resistance

    Yunzhu Shi;Yunzhu Shi;Liam Collins;Rui Feng;Chuan Zhang

  • Enhanced electric conductivity at ferroelectric vortex cores in BiFeO 3

    Nina Balke;Benjamin Winchester;Wei Ren;Ying Hao Chu

  • Deterministic control of ferroelastic switching in multiferroic materials.

    Nina Balke;Samrat Choudhury;Stephen Jesse;Mark Huijben;Mark Huijben

  • Electromechanical Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials: State of the Art and Prospects for the Future

    Nina Balke;Igor Bdikin;Sergei V. Kalinin;Andrei L. Kholkin

  • Ferroelectric or non-ferroelectric: Why so many materials exhibit "ferroelectricity" on the nanoscale

    Rama K. Vasudevan;Nina Balke;Peter Maksymovych;Stephen Jesse

  • Real space mapping of Li-ion transport in amorphous Si anodes with nanometer resolution.

    Nina Balke;Stephen Jesse;Yoongu Kim;Leslie Adamczyk

  • Differentiating Ferroelectric and Nonferroelectric Electromechanical Effects with Scanning Probe Microscopy.

    Nina Balke;Petro Maksymovych;Stephen Jesse;Andreas Herklotz

  • Tunable quadruple-well ferroelectric van der Waals crystals.

    John A. Brehm;John A. Brehm;Sabine M. Neumayer;Lei Tao;Lei Tao;Andrew O’Hara

  • Nanoscale Insight Into Lead-Free BNT-BT-xKNN

    Robert Dittmer;Wook Jo;Jürgen Rödel;Sergei Kalinin

  • Room-temperature multiferroic hexagonal LuFeO3 films.

    Wenbin Wang;Jun Zhao;Wenbo Wang;Zheng Gai

  • Ferroelectricity in strain-free SrTiO3 thin films.

    H. W. Jang;A. Kumar;S. Denev;M. D. Biegalski

  • Nanoscale Imaging of Fundamental Li Battery Chemistry: Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation and Preferential Growth of Lithium Metal Nanoclusters

    Robert L. Sacci;Jennifer M. Black;Nina Balke;Nancy J. Dudney

  • In-situ electrochemical-AFM study of localized corrosion of AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys in chloride solution

    Yunzhu Shi;Yunzhu Shi;Liam Collins;Nina Balke;Peter K. Liaw

  • Controlling the actuation properties of MXene paper electrodes upon cation intercalation

    Jeremy Come;Jennifer M. Black;Maria R. Lukatskaya;Michael Naguib

  • Effects of interlayer confinement and hydration on capacitive charge storage in birnessite.

    Shelby Boyd;Karthik Ganeshan;Wan Yu Tsai;Tao Wu

  • Local probing of ionic diffusion by electrochemical strain microscopy: Spatial resolution and signal formation mechanisms

    A. N. Morozovska;Eugene Eliseev;Nina Balke;Sergei Kalinin

  • Elucidating the Phase Transformation of Li4Ti5O12 Lithiation at the Nanoscale

    Michael G. Verde;Loïc Baggetto;Nina Balke;Gabriel M. Veith

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergei V. Kalinin
Sergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Stephen Jesse
Stephen Jesse Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alexander Tselev
Alexander Tselev University of Aveiro
Lane W. Martin
Lane W. Martin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Petro Maksymovych
Petro Maksymovych Clemson University
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Ramamoorthy Ramesh Rice University
Ying-Hao Chu
Ying-Hao Chu National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Anna N. Morozovska
Anna N. Morozovska National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Pu Yu
Pu Yu Tsinghua University
Eugene A. Eliseev
Eugene A. Eliseev Frantsevich Institute for Problems in Materials Science

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